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Guerrilla Gardening are awesome!!! If you growing stuff, why not grow food!! Check out this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzZzZ_qpZ4w
Get to know your local and state politicians, sheriff. That is way more important than the election that just happened.
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It's not misleading for major cities that I'm aware of, and especially not so for the "most dangerous" ones that the parent brought up. It doesn't "just happen" that I picked Baltimore, it's highly relevant to the topic the parent posted raised, even if you'd like to redirect the discussion elsewhere and it doesn't represent the US as a whole.
In addition to the effects of car pollution on health, education, etc., car infrastructure is also a big driver of segregation in cities, which leads to a lot of the social problems that engender violence. So shifting infrastructure away from cars is really relevant.
Sorry, it's really not. No one murders another person because of policies that don't provide enough to support to public transportation.
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Wait, he was just taking phone calls in a parked car? Is there something objectionable with that? If my neighbors called the police on me for that, my first thought wouldn't be to bake pie for them.
Funny anecdote, two friends and I were sitting in a car in Eastern Europe in a rich neighbourhood (pretty much only VIPs and foreigners lived there). We had some business with an army officer and he was busy with something so we had to wait. About 20 minutes after we parked, an American woman comes and asks us what we're doing here and whether we need help. That was weird because no one in our country does this, ever…
If a single party has been running that "top 10 most dangerous cities in the us" city for 30 to 50 years, perhaps try another party? Just a suggestion.
Become batman. That might help.
> However, this causes a brain drain and leave the city in a worse place.
The narcissistic ego. It's not "brain drain", it's jobs. You can have wonderful cities full of factory/maintenance/etc workers. I'm going to bet that a city's quality is tied to the citizens' financial security and physical security.
As for what you can do? Nothing. Cities improve with capital investment/systematic top-down focus, not via individuals who watch too many marvel movies. You are not going to bring crime down, you are not going to bring jobs in, you are not going to rebuild the city.
> I don't want to do that, I want to uplift if I can.
Oh my god. People need jobs/financial security. Not some virtue signaling techie from HN trying to "uplift" them.
Just live your life, who do you think you are? If naive attention-seeking idealist saved cities, all the cities in the country would be thriving. But they are not. Figure it out.
For example, some people in an estate in London got together and started planting flowerbeds to make the estate look really nice. Because everyone was involved, you can imagine what happened when some people from another estate came to damage it (hint, the locals stood up for themselves and their hard work).
Work out what makes your neighbourhood "most dangerous" and target some of that. Perhaps lobby for more streetlights, clean up some areas, pool some cash to help fix up someone's house.
Wealth inequality generally supports a servant economy more than a self-sufficient economy. Yes, you inject cash, but you are also diverting labor towards local services instead of global industry.
I know that it sounds silly for tech yuppies to talk about global industry in these desperate places, but that’s their only way out. They have to produce; they can’t just do services for any remaining wealthy residents, and rely on the government when the last ones leave. And you have to trust them to find a way.